Climate and environmental challenges are hitting harder and more often. While disasters touch everyone, their impacts are not felt equally. The most marginalized, especially women and girls, are too often the first to suffer and the last to recover.
On this International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, we acknowledge the ongoing efforts across Australia to reduce disaster risk. Through strong partnerships and global engagement, we can continue to build a safer, more resilient Australia.
This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction calls to “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.” AI through its ability to quickly ingest, process, and find patterns within vast, complex datasets – can help flag key factors across and within systems.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
Every year, disasters are becoming more frequent, more costly, and more devastating. That's why this year's International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) carries such a vital message: Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.
Jamaica stands in solidarity with the global community in advocating for smarter, sustainable investments in resilience. The theme this year, "Fund Resilience, Not Disaster," sends a powerful message: we must invest in preparedness, not just response.
Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
AIDMI marked IDDRR 2025 alongside 200 small business owners from six Indian cities. These communities celebrated their achievements in planning and implementing local adaptation measures against unseasonal rain, heavy downpours, floods, and extreme heat.
The 2025 IDDRR calls for a course correction: “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.” For governments that make up the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), with support from the Secretariat, this is a practical agenda
This collaborative endeavor aims to facilitate the exchange of challenges, lessons learned, and innovative practices in preparedness, response, and recovery across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Asian Institute of Technology - Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management Program
This 2023 background study presents estimates of the number of crisis-affected children and adolescents whose education was disrupted by climate shocks, as well as the number of forced displacements of school-aged children due to extreme weather events.
The study provides an account of progress, gaps and promising practices in including persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the region.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In 2023, the International Day will look at the reciprocal relationship between disasters and inequality. Inequality and disaster vulnerability are two sides of the same coin.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In an attempt to clarify key terms, and in keeping with its aim to bring coherence, alignment, and complementarity to the field of risk-informed early action, REAP has developed this glossary as a tool to support productive conversations around the topic.
This UNDRR-WMO joint report assesses the current global status of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) against Target G of the Sendai Framework, collating data officially reported by the Member States with data collected through a WMO survey.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In 2022, the International Day will focus on Target G of the Sendai Framework: “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.”
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
This technical paper examines opportunities and options for enhancing adaptation action through education and training, and public and youth participation, including associated challenges.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
In 2021, the IDDRR focus is on Target f: “Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
